Does anybody else really matter though? Who, outside of the top 4/6 players holds any relevance to anything, atall.
The fact isnt that Tuna (i dont think) wouldent be able to touch Edwin, let alone Fuzzyness and VA. I know that i am good, i **** all the mid players, but what frikken good is that if i am guaranteed to loose when i come across edwin in bracket?
what if i came up against VA straight after loosing to fuzzyness, would that display my position in the community correctly?
a) No, obviously it wouldent
b) Who cares? your a mid level player... step it up and make it into the top 5, then you matter
While i do find it... annoying that we have such a lack of players that Yaneev got a top seed straight off the bat, i dont think his placement necessarily reflects his ability when compared to england. There were certain factors involved, not least being a top seed so he didnt have to play ANY good players until the very end, there were more factors but i cba its long to list them down.
tl;dr - tuna is good, really good, but he doesnt make it into our top 6, IMO. and who else matters? If we went abroad, those 6 would represent us. THEY, are britain, nobody else.
m2k, mango etc - THEY are america, who the heck cares about the rest of u scrubs?
do you measure a country's skill from their worst players, or their best? cmon now, really? =/
You dont gotta play good people to get good.
You either have it from birth, or you dont.
Fuzzyness's abroad tournaments shows this, when cited with the average skill level in england.
So does mangos judgement of Prof having the best fox in europe.
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